Author name: Church of the Nativity

Freedom on the Menu (Peace Library Review)

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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherfordreview by Beth Crow YouTube Reading of this book (4:11) Sixty-three years ago — on February 4, 1960 — African-American students staged a sit-in at a  segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, an act that began  a national movement protesting segregation. Freedom on […]

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Building Beloved Community: Farm to Church CSA Update

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In 2021, Nativity partnered with nine other Raleigh congregations in a program to support our local Black farmers. The program, called Farm to Church Community Supported Agriculture or CSA, was launched by the Rural Advancement Foundation International -USA (RAFI-USA).  CSAs have become a popular way for consumers (CSA members) to buy local, seasonal food directly

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Building Beloved Community with Habitat for Humanity

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We have several opportunities through Habitat’s Faith Builder group to build a house, offer advocacy, and educate ourselves as we join with Habitat to help build the Beloved Community for racial equity. EpiscoBuild Begins Nativity will be joining the other Episcopal churches to build a house for Habitat for Humanity. We will start building our

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Love Is Powerful (Peace Library Review)

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by Heather Dean Brewer, author; and LeUyen Pham, illustratorreview by Anne Stokes Heather Dean Brewer is a writer, artist, and art director who designs books for kids and adults and loves to ride her bike in the woods. About this book she says, “I’ve often felt quiet and small and that no one could hear

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